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Mays Cancer Center, Evestra Inc. receive $3.3M grant for R&D of ovarian cancer drug

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The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio and Evestra Inc., a San Antonio-based biopharmaceutical company, have been awarded a five-year, $3.3 million Academic Industry Partnership grant from NIH for the research and development of a drug targeting ovarian cancer, EC359. It is the first grant of this kind awarded to The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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